This essay addresses the relationship of improvisation and identity. Biographical research that was conducted by the author into professional musicians’ lifelong learning showed the huge importance of improvisation for personal expression. Musically, the concept of sound appeared to serve as a strong …

Presentie gehouden bij een besloten expert meeting van de KNAW en de Boekmanstichting in Amsterdam. Door de ogen van de ander kijken: kunst als veranderkracht. Ik maak graag van de gelegenheid gebruik om iets te vertellen vanuit mijn werk als lector aan het PCC van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen. Samen …

Paper gepresenteerd tijdens 6. Tagung Netzwerk Forschung Kulturelle Bildung ‘Kultur, Macht, Bildung’, Lüneburg, DE

Paper presented at the 31st European Seminar in Ethnomusicology ESEM, Limerick (Ireland), 18/9/2015. This paper presents a case study of ‘Belinda’, a Dutch woman in her early sixties who considers herself at the same time as ‘un-musical’ and musically hyper-sensitive. She is neither an ‘outstanding performer’ …

Innovation Lab Healthy Ageing through Music & the Arts. Lecture at Long Live Arts! Conference, The Hague, 22-5-2015.

Presentatie gehouden bij de opening van het Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre tijdens het Music, Health, and Wellbeing Symposium.

Learning together: music teachers forming a community of practice.As a consequence of restructuring instrumental music education in the Netherlands, Art Centres increasingly cease to facilitate instrumental music lessons. As a consequence, instrumental teachers are no longer employed in these Centres …

Lezing voor symposium met Friese muziekscholen, 5-2-2015

Guest lecture in entrepreneurship course of bachelor of Music, Prince Claus Conservatoire, Groningen.

Musicians in the 21st century – changing perspectives. Keynote to be held in Krakow, december 2014 I would like to take the opportunity to talk about the changes and innovations in the music profession in Europe which are faced by our students and graduates and about new developments in the music careers. …